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<blockquote data-quote="bluebird" data-source="post: 189920" data-attributes="member: 16097">The ISO really was 6400 - I was shooting indoors with ambient light only and the widest aperture my lens could give me at a 50mm focal length was 4.2-4.5. Even then I ended up with a lot of fairly slow shutter speeds (1/13sec or so). This is why I just ordered a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G and an SB-700 + shoot-through umbrella and stand. Looking forward to getting some time to play with those soon! Now I just have to figure out how to use bouncing flash or the umbrella setup to get a bit more light on my subject without totally washing out my background. While Lightroom says &quot;Pattern,&quot; looking at the actual camera I'm in matrix mode. Maybe this is the problem? The dark background is tricking the camera into over-exposing the images when the subject takes up less than half of the frame? This might explain why the shots that look the best are the ones where the subject takes up more than about 75% of the frame. Maybe spot would work better?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bluebird, post: 189920, member: 16097"] The ISO really was 6400 - I was shooting indoors with ambient light only and the widest aperture my lens could give me at a 50mm focal length was 4.2-4.5. Even then I ended up with a lot of fairly slow shutter speeds (1/13sec or so). This is why I just ordered a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G and an SB-700 + shoot-through umbrella and stand. Looking forward to getting some time to play with those soon! Now I just have to figure out how to use bouncing flash or the umbrella setup to get a bit more light on my subject without totally washing out my background. While Lightroom says "Pattern," looking at the actual camera I'm in matrix mode. Maybe this is the problem? The dark background is tricking the camera into over-exposing the images when the subject takes up less than half of the frame? This might explain why the shots that look the best are the ones where the subject takes up more than about 75% of the frame. Maybe spot would work better? [/QUOTE]

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